Clothes-line hanger



(No Model.)

P. HANSE & B. SANER. CLOTHES LINE HANGER.

Patented Nov. 3, 1891.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP HANSE AND BASIL SANER, OF PATERSON, NElV JERSEY.

CLOTHES-LINE HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,432, dated November 3, 1891.

Application filed June 8, 1891. Serial No. 395,464. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, PHILIP I'IANSE and BASIL SANER, citizens of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the countyof lassaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes Line llangers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of clothesline hangers that are connected to the window-casing of a tenement or apartment house and from the pulley of which a line passes to and around a distant pulley, the washed clothes being hung on this line to dry sus pended in mid-air.

In carrying out our invention we employ a hinge-plate or stock adapted to be secured to the outer portion of a windowcasing. A swinging arm is pivoted to this hinge-plate, and its pivot carries a ratchet-wheel which is engaged by a pawl connected to the hingeplate. A yoke-arm is pivoted to the swinging arm, and in its outer end are secured a pulley and crank. The clothes-line passes around this pulley and around a pulley secured to a distant place, as usual, and the pulley and crank operate the clothes-line to run out or draw in the clothes, and a stop or friction lever controls the movement of the pulley and line. The aforesaid parts can be so swung or positioned that when the window is opened they extend partially into the room, so that a woman can hang the clothes on the line without leaning out of the window. \Vhen the clothes are hung out to dry, the parts aforesaid can be swung outwardly, so that it is possible to shut the window.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of our improvement, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of our device swung into the window of a house.

(t represents the hinge-plate or stock, which is provided with pivot-lugs a and holes for screws by which it can be securely fastened to the outer face of the window-casing Z) or to an outer door-casing or other convenient or desired place.

0 represents a long swinging arm connected to the lugs of the hinge-plate a by the pivotpin 0, which is fastened to said arm. A

ratchet-wheel (Z is also securely fastened to this pivot c and moves with the same and the arm 0, and a pawl e, engaging said ratchetwheel (Z, is pivoted to the hinge-plate a, and a spring 6 acts upon said pawl to keep it in engagement with the ratchet-wheel (Z. hen the pawl e is disengaged, the arm 0 can be set in any desired position. To the outer end of the swinging arm 0 is pivoted a yoke-arm f, and in the outer end of this arm f is a shaft 9, upon which are a pulley g and crank 71, by which the pulley g is rotated and the line m operated. A stop or friction lever 2', operated by gravity or by hand, is pivoted in the yokearm f, and its curved or cam-shaped end in the position shown in the drawings is adapted to clamp the pulley g to prevent the line, when in an upwardly-inclined position, running back by the weight of clothes hung out on the line. A stop-pin t is provided in this yoke-arm f, and the lever 'L' rests against the same when swung over with the handle near the pulley g and the clamping end away from the pulley, and in this position said lever will not touch the pulley at all. \Vhen the line or occupies a horizontal or downwardly-inclined position, the lever i may be reversed, as shown by dotted lines, and be operated by hand to clamp the pulley and prevent the line running out by the weight of clothes. A pulley is provided, as usual, and attached to a distant point, and the clothes-line 0r rope in passes around the pulley gand distant pulley.

I11 the position shown in Fig. 1 the parts are extended outside the window in the position they would occupy when not in use or when the line is hung with clothes to be dried and the window closed.

As shown in Fig. 3, the parts are swung partially into a room when the window is open. In this position a woman can hang up the clothes without leaning out of the window and can hold the line with the lever t' in either one of the two positions set forth, according to whether the line inclines upwardly, is horizontal, or inclines downwardly. This lever i can be reversed by the party using the same or putting itup, according to the requirements of the case and the location and inclination of the clothes-line.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. The combination, with the hinge-plate or stock, of a swinging arm pivoted thereto, a ratchet-wl1ee1 and pawl between the hingeplate and arm to control the position of the arm, a yoke-arm pivoted to the swinging arm, and a pulley and crank for the line or rope, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the hinge-plate or stock a, of a swinging arm 0, its pivot c, and the ratchet-wheel d, connected to the pivot c,

10 a pawl 6, connected to the plate a, the yoke- 

